PO(E)TATOES

inside the potato

the exact same potato

and inside that potato

another potato

 

I’m not looking

outside the potato

 

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the letters on the gravestone

became letter-shaped pools where

letter-shaped moss grew 

 

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but let’s return to potatoes

one thing they are not is

the moon

they are also not a lot of other things

 

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other things are often 

not

other things

 

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sometimes they are

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there’s a large boulder

the size of

a small boulder

blocking the road           

 

who can tell?

as always

we’re very far away

 

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what isn’t a potato

might not be a potato

 

we don’t know everything

 

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snow for example

 

is sometimes not potatoes

 

though often far away

 

 

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in the movie-set woods

 

they used potato flakes as snow

 

have we learned something?

 

not yet